The cluelessness of the left on display this morning, in the juxtaposition of two articles this morning. The first article comes from Arianna Huffington, puzzled at the decline in female happiness:
According to study after study, women are becoming more and more unhappy. This drop in happiness is found in women across the social and economic landscape. It doesn't matter what their marital status is, how much money they make, whether or not they have children, their ethnic background, or the country they live in. Women around the world are in a funk.
And it's not because of the multitude of crises we are facing. Women's happiness has been on a downward trend since the early 1970s, when the General Social Survey, a landmark study, began examining the social attitudes of women and men...
When you think about all that has happened over the last four decades -- with women securing greater opportunity, greater achievement, greater influence, and more money -- the decline in our collective state of mind seems to defy logic, and raises the vexing question: What in the world is going on?
Ms. Huffington should consult Mr. Gerson in the Washington Post:
There is a segment of society for whom traditional family values are increasingly irrelevant, and for whom spring-break sexual liberationism is increasingly costly: men and women in their 20s. [snip]
But delaying marriage creates moral, emotional and practical complications. The challenge, as always, is to humanize change.
The answer, even in the relational wasteland, is responsibility, commitment and sacrifice for the sake of children...
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